On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Jack O'Quin wrote: > I've got some common test data that I download for multiple packages > using rosbuild_download_test_data(). I'd like to put it in a single > shared directory so I only have to download it once for all the tests > in the stack. > > My first attempt was to download it to the tests subdirectory of a > common package that others depend on, then reference it there, but > there seem to be race conditions in the build systems causing that not > to work reliably for the other packages. Never mind. I found a bug in the test file. It was not a problem with the shared location of the test data. Please forgive the wasted bandwidth... --  joq